From a purely utilitarianism perspective, assuming all utility is linear and unscaled:
5/6 chance I'm on the side track * 1 person saved = 5/6
1/6 chance on the main track * 1/10 chance my switch is real * 10 people saved = 1/6
Seems pretty clear that you should not flip the switch. However, if I am on the main track, this thinking will lead to no-one flipping the switch and no lives saved whereas everyone thinking it will lead to a guaranteed save -> utility of 10/6.
If I can assume more than half the people can be rational and will think like me then I should flip the switch.
I hope this results in companies no longer using Twitter for their communications. It's completely inappropriate.
I've missed two trains and had to take and Uber until I recently found the only place the train company reliably posts updates was Twitter, over their own damn website.
Well it doesn't render at all on the lemmy frontend. I think you gotta format it like this
e^(iπ+1)^ = 0